Two Shoemakers on a Danish Dock
In August 1732, two young Moravian men — Johann Leonhard Dober, a potter, and David Nitschmann, a carpenter — stood on a dock in Copenhagen,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 28:16-20.
In August 1732, two young Moravian men — Johann Leonhard Dober, a potter, and David Nitschmann, a carpenter — stood on a dock in Copenhagen, preparing to sail for the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. Their mission: to bring the gospel to enslaved Africans whom no European church had thought worth reaching. Their tiny community in Herrnhut, Germany, numbered barely six hundred.…
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